Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41559, Robert Galway, Continental Penn. Agnecy And Residence

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Galway, Robert or Gilway
S. 41559
Penn. agency and residence
CONTENTS

21041
Pennsylvania
Robert Galway Capt Popham Penn private, 1777 War Haysongreg Regt in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of June, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd of June, 1818. and sent to Joseph Moure, Esquire, Register of the Treasury Department
Arrears to 4th month of September 1818. 2 3/4 mo. $ 22.40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Chester Co

Notification sent October 28, 1820 to John G. Waverly, Wash Chester Pa

I Robert Galway citizen of the United States and resi- dent in Chester County Pennsylvania being duly sworn do make oath & say that in the latter end of March or begining of April A.D. 1777 I enlisted in Philadelphia as a Private Sol- dier during the war (Viz: The war of the Revolution) in the company of Capt. William Popbach belonging to the Congress regiment under Col. Moses Hazen That I was in the Battles of Brandywine Germantown, at the taking of Red Bank & Red Bank. That I remained in the service untill the close of the war when I was regularly discharged having served nine months & upwards against the common enemy. That my discharge has been lost & destroyed by the accidents of time. Moreover I do make oath & say that I am a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of reduced cir- cumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish any claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States & being now sixty four years of age Robert G. Galway
Sworn & subscribed before me one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas in & for the County of Chester State of Pennsylvania this 10 Day of June A.D. 1810 M. Morris

I Walter Finney Judge of the court of quarter sessions in & for the County of Chester State of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Robert Galway an applicant for a pension from the United States has served nine months & upwards against the common enemy in the Revolutionary war and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Applicant by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support And I now transmit the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable
The secretary of The Department of war
Witness my hand and seal the Fourth Day of June one Thousand eight hundred & eighteen
W. Finney

Chester County Pa.
Before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County. Personally came John Gillespie aged sixty four years, and being Duly Sworn Doth Depose and say that he is well acquainted with Robert Galway the within named Applicant that they served together in the same Company in Colonel Hazens Regiment called the Congress Regiment in the service of the United States from Early in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Seven until the close of the War that they were both Discharged about the same time.
John Gillespie
Sworn & subscribed the Tenth Day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen
Before W. Shimey

Robert Galway
104
East Nottingham
Em
June 18

There is due to me.
One debt of Eleven dollars One sum fifteen
I am in debt the following sums
One debt of Twenty dollars
One of Ten
One of Five dollars
One of Two dollars \frac{50}{100}
I am a labourer by trade and am unable from age & infirmity to follow that occupation - my family consists of my wife Elizabeth aged sixty six years weak & infirm - One son and grand children. Robert Galvany
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
CHESTER COUNTY, ss:
I John G. Merlan Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, of the said county of Chester; the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of Pennsylvania; Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing Declaration and oath
and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said Court; AND I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is Twenty five dollars and for & seven cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Westchester, this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty .
John G. Merlan Prothonotary.

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
CHESTER COUNTY, ss:
ON this First day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Twenty Personally appeared in OPEN COURT of Common Pleas, held at Westchester, in and for the county of Chester, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; being a court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings,
Robert Gilway aged Sixty  Eight years and upwards, resident in the township of East Nottingham in the said county of Chester, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; That he served in the Revolutionary war, in the Company under Capt. Poplar in the Congress Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Hazen
on the Continental Establishment, and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, his certificate being numbered 1041.
AND I the said Robert Gilway do solemnly swear , that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income; other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Robert Gilway
to, declared and subscribed, on the first day of August 1820, in OPEN COURT of Common pleas, in and for the county of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the said Court, being a Court of Record by the Laws of the said Commonwealth.
Thos G. Wersler Prothonotary.
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY.
 One Cow  One Hog  One oak tub  One old Walnut table  One Pine Chest  Two iron pots  One iron skillet  Six knives & 6 forks  Three Cups & 3 Saucers.  six plates 
 five chairs  four Dishes  One Squat  Shore & tongs. 
Value $25. 47 1/2 100?

41559 Rev  INVALID.  own
File No. 41559 Robert Galway Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sir.
City of Washington 22 d June 1818.
Permit me to hand you the Papers of Robert Galway for the purpose of being examined and returned to me if comd. to wait until you obtain the Official Certificate of the Revolutionary Pensions from the Executive of Pennsylvania —
I observe from the testimony of John Gillespie that the time of R & G service was from 1777 to the end of the War.
I am Sir,
very respectfully
Your obed Servt
Joseph Vaux
George Boyd esq Pension Office
  30     10     20  1/2 $16    4  6.40    24/30  $22.40  

Admitted, 23 rd June, 1818 [Signature]

John G. Wessler Prothonotary of the Court of common pleas in and for the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do certify that Walter Finney Esquire before whom the annexed deposition appears to have been taken is and at the time of taking and sub- scribing the same was one of the associate judges of the Court of common pleas in and for the County aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at West-Chester the thirteenth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. G. Wessler Proth.

To the Honorable Secreta- ry of the Department of war of the United States The petition & representation of the subscriber hum- ly showeth
That your petitioner as will appear from the accompanying Documents served nine months & upwards as a private soldier in the war of the revolu- tion on the continental establishment. That he is in need of assistance from his country for support. He there- fore begs to be be placed on the pension list of the United States agreeably to the law of March 10 th 1810 And your petition will ever remain y r e